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"XL"
The Roman numeral for “Forty,” we will finish out the month of May by studying the significance of the number XL (40) as found throughout Scripture. Used 146 times in the Bible, the number 40 generally symbolizes a period of testing, trial or maturing…a period from which growth and seasoning springs. We will use these days to learn the lessons that only 40 can teach: learning how to “excel” during periods of hardship and uncertainty. (Notable examples: Newton’s early formulations of calculus and his early work on the laws of gravity during the quarantine of 1665 and Shakespeare’s writing of McBeth during the Bubonic plague isolation of 1606.
Throughout this series, we will also be referring back the etymological history of the word “quarantine” (i.e., Venetian policy of “quarantine”).
Throughout this series, we will also be referring back the etymological history of the word “quarantine” (i.e., Venetian policy of “quarantine”).
